For the first time in 14 months, the city reported zero Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The first positive case of Covid-19 was reported from West Singhbhum at Chaibasa. The youth was of 22 year old and had returned from Chennai on May 12, 2020.
Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Suraj Kumar has directed officials to carry out large scale testing, treatment and surveillance in order to bring down active cases and new infections. He asked district officials, in a series of meetings, to prepare for a possible third wave of infections.
"It was in May when we first positive case and then today we have no cases reported. Initially, during the outbreak of Covid-19, it was tough to control the spread because people live in large numbers here and they didn’t follow the norms. During the first and second waves, we had made arrangements of quarantine centres and isolation facilities. We are still doing tracing, testing and treatment for people on a regular basis as well as carried out door-to-door testing on a regular basis", said an official.
In the past 10 days, Jamshedpur has been reporting less than 10 Covid cases each day on an average. The tally of active cases in Jamshedpur has come down to 26 as per official figures. East Singhbhum is one of the several districts in the state that has not reported any fresh case in a day. The Coronavirus tally in Jamshedpur remained at 51,765.
East Singhbhum district administration has conducted 45,5219 tests per million in the district. The recovery rate in Jamshedpur is 97.91% while the mortality rate is 2.04 %.
More than 6500 were tested on the day. According to the daily health bulletin, the Covid-19 test positivity is 0.00%. The Steel City tested 6568 samples, of which, zero turned out positive while five people recovered from the Covid-19. The continuous high numbers of tests have pushed the positivity rate further down to 0.00 per cent, the government data showed.